jaundiced

PRONUNCIATION:

(JAHN-dist)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Exhibiting prejudice from envy or resentment.
2. Having jaundice: a disease that makes the skin, white of the eyes, etc., to be yellow, caused by an increase of bile pigments in the blood.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French jaunice (yellowness), from jaune (yellow), from Latin
galbinus (yellowish), from galbus (yellow). Earliest documented use: 1640.

USAGE:

“Let me leave posterity to judge this one as my defence will be jaundiced.”
Pusch Commey; ‘How Do You Write on Death When You Haven’t Experienced It?’;
New African (London, UK); Dec 2013.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. -Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954)